New York Design Commission awards own president

Signe Nielsen has been the government agency’s president since 2012 (Image via theartnewspaper.com)

The New York City Design Commission presented its annual awards for excellence in public design on 7 July—and among the winners is a company run by the commission’s president. Signe Nielsen, who has been the government agency’s president since 2012, is also a principal at Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects. [...]

This is not the first time that Nielsen’s firm has been recognised by the Design Commission while she has been at the head of the award-giving body.
— theartnewspaper.com